quickstart.mdx

title	Quickstart
description	Create your first Paperzilla project and start consuming papers via app feed, RSS/Atom, CLI, MCP, or email digest.
keywords	getting started first project onboarding setup

import { AiAgents } from '/snippets/ai-agents.mdx';

This guide gets you from zero to a working project.

Before you start

• You can begin anonymously in chat.
• You will add your email when you save delivery.

Step 1: create a project from chat

1. Open paperzilla.ai.
2. Click See today's must-reads.
3. Tell Paperzilla what you track:
   • categories
   • interest description
   • include keywords
   • exclude keywords
4. Review the proposal and click Set up delivery.

Step 2: save project delivery

1. Add a Project name.
2. Choose Email frequency: Daily or Weekly.
3. Set Max papers per email.
4. If prompted, add Your name and Your email.
5. Click Save project.

Paperzilla sends a magic-link email when account confirmation is needed.

• Daily sends email when new relevant papers are ready. If nothing new qualifies, no daily email is sent.
• Weekly keeps your feed live but sends one scheduled email with the best-scoring papers from the past week.

Step 3: open your project

After save, open your project page to:

• Read feed preview
• Open full paper feed
• Copy RSS/Atom URL
• Generate AI summaries
• Edit visibility, pause state, and keywords

Step 4: choose how you read

• In app: in-app feed guide
• RSS/Atom: feeds guide
• CLI: CLI guide
• MCP: MCP guide
• Email: email digests guide

Step 5: refine relevance over time

As papers arrive, improve precision by editing:

• interest text
• include keywords
• exclude keywords
• adjacent papers toggle

Use project management for details.